Love
Epigram 118. His Mistress
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Love
She is his own, and he is happy much,
Because besides himself none doth her touch:
But 'tis not for respect to him, or her;
For she's so foul all men do her abhor.
She constant is to him against her minde,
And he t'her, 'cause he can no other find.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 118. His Mistress.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/163/.
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